Expected NYC / NY wage

I have no clue. But I know If someone told me they'd pay me $500/wk to drive NYC I'd spit in their face and piss on their grave.

Hope this helps

 

What could go wrong?

 

500 a week is basic pay. Trucking is feast and famine on mileage. It varies. If you run reefer and go into NYC, chances are it's going to be hunts point from the GWB crossing.

When a trucker has decade or more of expeirence that one becomes a trainer and draws salary which works out to 1500 a week give or take net. Provided his or her students continue to pass tests and excel. Which was my experience anyhow long ago.

Wages failed to follow inflation. 500 a week on 25% was what I made running NYC and the NE LTL during the 80's fast forward to 2000's mileage pay pretty much doubled and many companies still paid 30's per mile which is about half of what it should really be for good drivers. Immigrants coming over to drive as well. They can be taken for cheap and don't know it.

 

I'm from Brooklyn NY originally lived there 21 years and I know very well how the traffic and drivers are. The worst part is the traffic, congesstion and knowing your way around. I used to hear pple say NY drivers were bad untill I drove into Texas. Honestly I wouldn't do it for 500. Maybe for a small box van. But for a semi to navigate thru all that traffic and possible docks you would have to back into forget about it. You'd have to pay me 2k a week to get me interested.
I mean you got to balance everything out.
RISK/ REWARD.
If this is a carrier you like and want to do till retirement. Your better off working out of jersey.
Good luck making a decision.

 

I agree on the traffic, you would also have to pay me 2K to get a semi back across the GWB and downtown. Im sorry it is what it is. That's what? 25% of a load from LA? Should be no problem.

Anyhow... traffic. I'll say that part of my history on the 95 is from fighting with the people around me and the toll barriers that are no longer there. East River is also something of a problem. It really does not get any better into conn.

If saftey was to pull the crash stop braking data from my trucks on the cross bronx all these years I drove, they will find dozens of events where we went from 70 to nothing in about 7 seconds average. Or horsed the truck around the offending car. The reasons why the car will be there is sometimes insurance fraud. Other times is a blatant hit me you big trucker...

If all the problems Ive had in the entire USA, it will happen on that cross bronx if anywhere. Ive been very lucky because being born and raised using DC as a training ground, NYC was managable.

 

.50cpm NY/NE & 150$ any trip made into boroughs or the island